The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-08-18

I tuo HAHOuHN VI hStStS anu tue eNttilI VI Nut
surplrs, and you will he tempted to abuse
the franchise Of the company and make mp
the deficit Of the year by adding some
OF the receipts Of another year; and you
will be tempted to send ont mean. anonv-
nous circulars derogatury Go other compa-
hies. forgetful of the fact that anonymous
communication means only two things
the cowardice Of the author and the inefii.
rierrv ~ the police in allowing such q
thing To I've dated any where save inside OF
penitentiarv. Under the mighty press
ure many have gone down, and YOU will
follow them il YOU have too much conf
dence in yourself, and do not appeal to the
Lord for positive help.
Bat il any Of Won belong 70 that mis-
creant class Of people who without any
financial ability, organize themselves into
what they call life insurance company,
with q pretended capital Of 100000
ur SsN.OW. then vote Yourself into
the lucrative position, and then take
all the premiums for yourself, and
then, at the approach of the State super
inteudent drop all into the hands Of those
life insurance undertakrrs whose business
il is to gather mp the remains of dcfunct
organizations and bury them in their own
vault-thcn, saw. You had better get ont
Of the business, and diSgorge the Widows
| houses Won have swallowed.
i But MY word is to all those who nrs
. legi:imatglt engaged in the business.
/ y "a ought to he better than other men.
not only because of the responsibilities
that rest upon YOU. hut beCaSe the truth is
| ever confronting Won that your stay ON
earth j. uncertain, and your life a matter
+ Of a few DAYS or wears. Do not those
. black edged letters that come int" vour
/ Office Wake :ru think Does hot the dnt:
/ tors S"rtliicat" on the death claim give
/ Nou thrill. Your periodicals, vour
advertisements, and even the litho-
/ sraphv Of your policies warn
Won that YOU are mortal According to
Your own showing the chances that YOU
will die this wear are at least two per cent,
| Are YOU prepared for the tremendous exA
| gency? The most condemned man in the
! Judgment dav will be the unprepared life
insurance man, for the simple reason that
| his whole business was connected with
human exit, and he can not say:
81 did not think"
His whole business was TO think on that
one thing. Oh. my brother. get insured
! for eternity. In consideration of what
Christ has done in your behalf, have the in.
denture this dav made ont, signed and
/
But have words of encouragement and
comfort for those OF my hearers who are
engaged in the fire insurance business.
You are ordained by God to stand between
us and the most raging element of nature.
| We are indebted TO YOU for what the Ma
tional Board of Underwriters and the Com
vention of Chiefs of the Fire Department
have effected through your suggestions,
! and through yOur encoura cement. We
are indebted to Won for what you have eff
| fected III the construction of buildings,
and in the change in the habits OF our
cities; SO that by scientific principles or
| derby companies CXtinguiSh the fire, in.
stead of the old-time riots which used
! to extingush the citizens. And
we are indebted to YOU for the
! successful demands You have made for the
repeal Of unjust laws-for the battle YOU
| have Uaged against incendarSm and ar
son--for the fatal blow You have given to
to the theory that corporations have no
! souls, by the CheerfulneSS and prOmptitude
with which YOU have met losses, from
which You might have escaped through
the technicalitv of the law.
do not know any class of men in our
midst more high toned and worthy Of con-
tidence than these men, and yet l have
sometimes feared that while your chief
! business Is to calculate about losses on
earthly property, you might without sufti.
cent thought go into that which, in re-
gard to Your soul, in your own par
lance might be called ''hazards,"
extra hazards" Especial hazards" An
unforgiven sin in the soul is more inflam-
mahle and explosive than camphne or
nitro glycerine. However the rates may
| be-Yea, though the whole earth were paid
down to youin one solid premium-you can
not afford to loose your soul. Do not take
that risk lest it be said hereafter that while
in this world you had keen business faculty,
when YOU went out of the world you went
out cverlastngly insolvent.
The scientific Hitchcocks, and SillimanS,
and Mitchells of the world have united
with the sacred writers TO make us believe
that there is coming a cOnfagratiOn, to
sweep across the earth, compared with
which that of Chicago in 1871, and that of
Boston in 1872, and that of New York in 1885
were mere nothings. Brooklyn on fire
New York on fire. Charleston on fire
San Francisco on fire! Canton on fire. st.
Petersburgh on fire! Paris on fire! Lon.
don on fire. the Andes on fire! the Ape
mines on fire. the Himalayas on fire, What
will be peculiar about the day will be that
the water with which we put our great
fires will itself take flame; and the Missis.
sippi, and the Ohio, and the st. Lawrence,
and Lake Erie, and the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, and tnmhling Niagara,
shall with red tongues lick the heavens.
The geological heats of the center of the
world will burn ont toward the circumfer-
! ence, and the heats of the outside will
| burn down from the circumference to the
| center, and this world will become, not
only according to the Bible, but according
! to science, living cOal-the living coal
| afterward whitening into ashes, the ashes
| scattered by the breath of the last hur-
ricane, and all that will be left of this glo-
rious planet will be the flakes of ashes
| fallen on other worlds.
| Oh, ON that day will You be fire-prOof,
| or will you be a total loss: VIII you be
rescued or will you be consumed? When
| this great cathedral of the world, with the
| pillars of rocks, and its pinnacles of
mountains, and its cellar of golden mine,
and it's upholstery of morning cloud, and
! its baptismal font of the sea, shall blaze,
! vii. you get out on the tire-escape of the
| Lords deliverance? Oh! ON that day for
| which all other DAYS were made, may il
! be found that these life insurance men had
! d paid-lIp policy, and these fire insurance
rnen had given them instead Of the debris
OF a consumed worldly estate, a house not
made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
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